React-tRace: A Semantics for Understanding React Hooks: An Operational Semantics and a Visualizer for Clarifying React Hooks

React has become the most widely used web front-end framework, enabling the creation of user interfaces in a declarative and compositional manner. Hooks are a set of APIs that manage side effects in function components in React. However, their semantics are often seen as opaque to developers, leadin...

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Published in:	Proceedings of ACM on programming languages Vol. 9; no. OOPSLA2; pp. 471 - 498
Main Authors:	Lee, Jay, Ahn, Joongwon, Yi, Kwangkeun
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY, USA ACM 09.10.2025
Subjects:	Formal language definitions Functional languages Graphical user interface languages Human-centered computing Interpreters Operational semantics Software and its engineering Theory of computation Visualization systems and tools Hooks Functional reactive programming Render semantics React
ISSN:	2475-1421, 2475-1421
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